DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY

DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in RIVIERA BEACH, Florida, part of PALM BEACH, with 529 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 5% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of -11.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Palm Beach County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

Nearest neighbor: SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 577 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 94% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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